My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently.

Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency.

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.

The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

I still remember Botvinnik's reaction to each of my games, right from the opening moves. At first he would express amazement, then annoyance, and, finally irritation.

By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.

Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.

At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don’t have a business.

Love is the source, power, essence, and evidence of life.

But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.

I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.

I am not a strategic coach; I am a practice coach.

We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

Persuasion is not a science but an art